Notice that homosexual behaviors are just part of a list—a list containing behaviors with which many of us, regardless of sexual orientation, struggle daily. Your name and mine are attached to almost every one of them. In one sense, homosexual behavior is no better or worse than greed. The list of offenders in 1 Corinthians, for example, contains those who are “idolaters.” What an odd term for us to apply in the twenty-first century! The notion of bowing down to a statue and offering our devotion to it seems so alien. But is it? Hasn’t sexuality become a god to us? Don’t we sacrifice for it,
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